The answer, of course, is an emphatic "No," and it's OK that you're smiling too. "Revel" in this case is the bankrupt Atlantic City Casino project that Christie pushed as his legacy, but has descended into bankruptcy. I wrote last September in Christie's Fall: Mall Stall by Football and That's Not All about the failure of Revel and Xanadu:
The flop is the Revel Casino, into which Christie poured $216 million in tax breaks, but was closed last month after two bankruptcy filings. The other project is "American Dream," Christie's plan to turn the failed Meadowlands Mall "Xanadu," into a "Mall of America" type Gargantua, featuring shops, restaurants, an indoor ski slope (!), a Ferris wheel and 35 Pinkberries (ok -- I made the last one up).
With his Bridge and Tunnel disasters (and I believe the latter to be a much greater sin), the ARC of Christie's Moral Universe appears finally to be bending toward various kinds of justice, including the various investigations reported on yesterday, and new developments in the Revel boondogle, chronicled here by Charlie Pierce in
The Passion of Big Chicken: The Money Pit.
The Revel, "once predicted to be an Atlantic City game-changer and now standing tall, dark, and empty in the unpredictable hands of [new owner Glenn] Straub, a maverick Florida businessman and polo player" now must tap "into power at the nearby Showboat, another empty former casino. ACR, whose only customer was Revel, had been under court order to keep the casino's lights on while it was bankrupt." reported
Pierce summarizes:
"One bankrupt casino is mooching electricity from another bankrupt casino."
A fitting legacy for "Tunnel-cide" Perp.
No. Not wrong to "Revel" at all.